We're celebrating the holidays with 25 Days of Cookies! Today, Day 3: Chocolate-Orange Cookie Stacks

Every day in December through Christmas, we’re sharing a cookie recipe. Forget the 12 Days of Christmas—these are the 25 Days of Cookies.

Chocolate and orange make an unlikely, but inspired team. Who would've thought? One's full of bumptious tang and citric acid; the other is dark, full-bodied, and seductive. You can imagine chocolate and orange starring in a buddy-cop movie, with chocolate as the affable, smooth-talking strongman and orange as its gonzo, trigger-happy, faintly psychotic sidekick. It's a tense pairing, but at the end of the day, the bad guys are always behind bars and the commissioner is handing out gold stars.

So it is with these chocolate-orange cookie stacks: they deserve a gold star. With orange cream and grated orange peel on top, they boast the perfect level of citrus kick, and their height makes them a striking centerpiece to any holiday cookie spread. So get baking! And if you need inspiration, put on Lethal Weapon in the background.